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How to Make a Poetry Interview Go Viral?
In this age of digital nonsense, one thing is certain: it’s possible to share something with billions of people within a matter of seconds. Usually, it’s just garbage lists full of photoshopped catfaces and Jennifer Lawrence gifs (not complaining) and arbitrary rankings of things from previous decades (of which we are hardly innocent). Still, there’s […]
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December 20, 2013

Is The Hunger Games Literature?
Greetings, literarians. We start off this hungry Hunger Games Friday with the following question: is the Hunger Games trilogy literature? Well, what is literature, anyway? Our old friend Wikipedia defines it like this: “Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work.” Okay, so that doesn’t help, at all, but maybe this […]
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March 23, 2012

Happy First Birthday, Literary Man!
Begin Portrait of Madness: on February 25th, THE LITERARY MAN turned one. We, the faithful writers, couldn’t be more proud of how far we’ve come (some of those early posts were really embarassing, er, not that there aren’t a few clunkers every now and then), and we’re extremely thankful to each of you for your […]
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March 6, 2012

Top Ten Literary Books of 2011
Greetings, Literarians, and welcome to the Top Ten Literary Books of2011. There are, of course, three weeks left in the year, but those weeks will likely pass in an eggnoggy blur of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Home Alone(s) 1 & 2, myriad Christmas parties, and plenty of improper caroling. Therefore, let’s break this down into […]
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December 7, 2011

Jennifer Lawrence and Novels
It has come to the attention of the Literary Man that Jennifer Lawrence has agreed to star in another film adapted by a novel. First, it was WINTER’s BONE, now it’s something called HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins. Neither of these are typically what the Literary Man would consider literary novels, but still: does this […]
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March 31, 2011

An Introduction to the Epic Poet
“My attempt is merely astonishing,” wrote the Epic Poet in a recent email to the Literary Man. “To write the longest poem in the history of the world. To write the best or most erotic poem in the world would be easy, a foregone conclusion, even, but the longest–I can’t say anyone’s ever attempted it.” […]
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March 9, 2011